Sentences with phrase «with patronage jobs»

Urged on by his boss, perpetually exasperated Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn) reluctantly sends out a trio of scalawags — wonderfully played by James Spader, Tim Blake Nelson and a curiously under - utilized John Hawkes — to try and buy the votes of lame - duck Democratic congressmen with patronage jobs and folders of cash.

The Water Authority has long held the reputation of being a haven for political patronage, with a patronage jobs determined largely by which party controls the County Legislature.

They say Skelos has rewarded Westchester Independence Party leader Giulio Cavallo with patronage jobs and other support — in hopes of getting Independence backing for Senate candidates next year — at the same time that Cavallo was blocking Astorino from getting his party's ballot line.

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His hiring of a $ 163,000 - a-year Mangano operative without providing the town board with a resume or job description beforehand, or following a competitive hiring process, is straight out of the patronage playbook, and Saladino seems incapable of understanding why it would bother anyone.

If the deal holds, Brooklyn Democrats are set to reap the spoils, including at least one choice committee chairmanship and patronage jobs with the City Council that have eluded them in years past.

Tony Sinagra, an old hand at city politics who recently stepped down as chairman of Kingston's Republican Committee, said the problem was less with mayors handing out existing jobs to supporters, but with mayors creating new positions in city government as a means of increasing their patronage powers.

The Rockland political class of the latter 20th century and early 21st century grew accustomed to trading patronage jobs and making deals with voting blocs.

Some Suffolk County Dems accuse Schaffer of being more interested in holding on to power and gaining patronage jobs by cutting deals with local GOP and conservative party leaders than helping his own party win state office races.

And it is absolutely no secret that all those bogus «diversity» and «affirmative action» positions are do - nothing political patronage jobs that enrich only the politically connected elite of the minority community, along with thier families and closest friends.

Nice Krazy Kurlz, you really know who to bring out the best in people with your insults but as a double dipper sitting on a nice patronage job, you're just siphoning off the system we all pay for.

But the administration should also be taking a good hard look at eliminating unnecessary political patronage jobs of their own making along with holdover appointments of the Pataki and Spitzer administrations.

Fancy footwork and evasion won't change the reality that even a «reform - minded» Governor like Andy Cuomo campaigning on promises of a «New New York» is keeping the shadow government of Commissions, Authorities and off - budget quasi-public corporations in place and running a patronage mill busily dispensing 6 - figure jobs to connected people who clearly have cabbage to burn while being incredibly penurious with civil service schlubs, secretaries and clerks.

In the 38 - page lawsuit, Cater alleges that Hoyt bragged about his ability to get people patronage jobs and of his closeness with Cuomo.

They didn't have jobs; what they had was patronage, with which somebody bought their abilities and assured them the opportunity to do the work they wanted to do.

The cause — the end of slavery — is unquestionably righteous; the means to that end — Lincoln covertly sending the founder of the Republican Party to test the waters of brokering a peace deal with the Confederacy and unofficially employing shady surrogates to offer patronage jobs to House Democrats simply waiting for their Congressional tenures to end — are more questionable.

A lack of job security is coupled with rampant patronage leading to a deficiency of competence.